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The Roswell Report: Fact versus Fiction in the New Mexico Desert was published in 1995 by Headquarters United States Air Force. It was written in response to Representative Steven H. Schiff's request and a General Accounting Office audit, and it contains Col. Richard L. Weaver's report and 1st Lt. James McAndrew's synopsis, along with attachments, appendices and photographs. The report says researchers found no evidence of an extraterrestrial craft or crew. It concludes that the 1947 debris came from a Project MOGUL balloon train.

  • p. 28 …There was no sign of any metal in the area which might have been used for…
  • p. 30 …and tinfoil has since grown to exotic metals with hieroglyphics and fiber optic-like materials. Most…
  • p. 38 …a thick, foil like metallic gray substance; a brittle, brownish-black plastic- like material, like Bakelite…
  • p. 39 …fine kidskin glove leather and a dull metallic grayish silver, one side slightly darker than the…
  • p. 43 …a "service flight" that included a cylindrical metal sonobuoy and portions of a weather instrument housed…
  • p. 159 …light, as well as some sort of metallic retlecting material that was also very light I…
  • p. 172 …nothing he had ever seen and the metal was as thin as newsprint and as light…
  • p. 173 …Was it some sort of material, metal material or... MC: And it's in one of…
  • p. 177 …Rickett said it looked Hke metal and asked if it was radioactive" ... and you said it…
  • p. 182 …wandered through the security phalanx and saw metallic debris scattered in an outer circle with a…
  • p. 205 …but I betievc they were covered in metal. On review of the photos in the Randle…
  • p. 218 …They talk in terms of materials that look like metallic foil, and specifically that "could not…
  • p. 266 …It's my memory that there was good, bright, aluminum metal foil, not painted stuff on…
  • p. 269 …mylar is a polyethylene, it's a metalized polyethylene. A: It's not really a polyethylene…
  • p. 309 …s ball and jacks set) with a metallic material between the legs. The legs were madeq…
  • p. 318 …the local sheriff and reported that sme metallic debris had come to rest on the ranch…
  • p. 379 …out of It, There was no S(gn of any metal of Corona. today told his…
  • p. 465 …The fabric has been coated with a metallic paint to mw1.mue the effects of radiation…
  • p. 519 Corps ML-310/ radiosonde aneroid unit, a metal helix on a rotating cylinder of insulating material…
  • p. 598 …20, 39 stiffened with metal, .!! - Arrays of rubber balloons cluster, 7 linear, 6 Atmospheric oscillations, 10…
  • p. 864 …15 x i X .030" 24 ST Metal spring bow to hold appendix flat, like pressed…
  • p. 867 Figure 4 Two foot apflendix, showing metal spring bow in position. -13-
  • p. 868 …toggles and loops in the nylon may be used instead of the heavier metal snaps. -14-
  • p. 908 …rotating cyclinder of insulating material with a metal helix wound around the cylinder, and a 6…
  • p. 916 …Spiral--made of nickel or other metal which does not corrode in the atmosphere, .010 inch…
  • p. 917 …Loading edge of the metal spiral will be true and sm.ooth to within .0005 inch…
  • p. 922 …The car- bon should not be so thick as to obscure the metallic appearance of the…
  • p. 932 …GoPPE:R TuBE s" J·-- 58 COILA5SEMBL.Y (SECTION) --.. ....-- METAL HosE TO TANKS c :::{l;::::t…
  • p. 937 …tin cans Metal funnel -8:5-
  • p. 989 …These balloons were easily mistaken for flying saucers due to their shape and metallic exterior coating.
they're doing anything different than any of these other people ... they just happen to have the most
current stuff on the street.
SC: Trying to write a book.
RW: "Rickett, the Provost Marshal" ... excuse me ... page 61. "According to Lewis Rickett, one of
the CIC Agents, he, with the commander of the CIC shop, drove a staff car from the motor pool
and returned to the crash site. They were followed by a second car carrying several MP's. An
MP did ask for identification because neither of the counterintelligence men were in uniform." So
this would have been the second trip, which you said you did not take. But, he did apparently go
with you on the first trip?
SC: Rickett?
RW: Rickett ... Yeah.
SC: Yeah.
RW: And I assume at that time, just like in OSI, you did not wear uniforms for the most part?
SC: I didn't even have any unifonns.
RW: Yeah. I know the feeling. For the first eight years in OSI, I think, the only uniform I had
was my mess dress. "But Rickett, the Provost Marshal and the senior intelligence officer walked
into the debris field, examined the wreckase. Rickett said it looked Hke metal and asked if it was
radioactive" ... and you said it wasn't. That was page 62. This is on the, you would have been on
this now second trip again, O.K.1 On page 63: u they prepared to leave the crash site the CIC
agent told Rickett: "You and I were never out here. You and I never saw this. You don't see
any military people or military vehicles out here. Rickett agreed saying yeah, we never even left
the office." Now that's the little quote they have out also in the..
SC: Now what page is that on?
RW: That's on page 63.
SC: 63? No. Now I could have said something facetious like that after we got back to the
office, after I was convinced that it was a weather balloon, or some such contraption. I didn't
know, naturally. I could have said after we got back to the office: "Rick~ this has been a big
boondoggle. I don't even want 700 CIC Headquarters to know we wasted our time on it. Forget
we ever did it." I mean I could have...
RW: O.K.

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FOIA release, from the osd collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 993 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.